tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post8891397579032458653..comments2024-01-11T04:21:42.550+02:00Comments on EVERYWHERE: Quiet Chaos Vs. Just Plain Chaosיובל בן-עמי Yuval Ben-Amihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08990566978902353143noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post-54849295401458661932008-08-18T02:44:00.000+03:002008-08-18T02:44:00.000+03:00Not too much at all, Homefris, and I'll take it fu...Not too much at all, Homefris, and I'll take it further if I may. I feel that the Joker represents America's encounter with terrorism over this decade. Like Osama Bin Laden, He dresses funny, mocks the American establishment on videos and causes mayham for reasons that are not personal financial gain. My problem is that according to this film, if the reason is not personal financial gain, it's no reason at all. As one charecter in the film explains the Joker's motive: "some people just like to watch the world burn".<BR/><BR/>I'm not saying that Bin Laden had any good reasoning behind his murderous actions, but this oversimplified explanation reminds me of the "they just hate freedom" bull you heard a lot in the U.S. over the first years of the decade. a little bit of more intelligent analysis and the U.S. might have gone much further in its "war on terror". They might have even caught the guy!<BR/><BR/>What I did like about this film is how helpless the Batman appears. If we are to follow my previous analogy, he represents the Bush administration, using violence where he should have used intellect, spending a fortune on fancy weapons and immunition, causing much more harm than good and ending up vanishing into the dark night seen as a villain by all. In this sense, The Dark Knight is nearly satyrical.יובל בן-עמי Yuval Ben-Amihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08990566978902353143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post-65653207771387233622008-08-17T17:03:00.000+03:002008-08-17T17:03:00.000+03:00i came out of the dark knight deeply disturbed..pe...i came out of the dark knight deeply disturbed..perhaps because i'm easily shaken and moved, but mostly i've been able to articulate it as a re-opening of my own interest in lunacy. i loved the tension the joker started to poke at of order vs. chaos, and the ultimate stagnancy/instability that attempted order can cause. <BR/><BR/>too much for a comic?Leorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338800745309441376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post-14443272812988975772008-08-17T01:27:00.000+03:002008-08-17T01:27:00.000+03:00I have. I thought it was well executed (a few of p...I have. I thought it was well executed (a few of people I know were involved in the animation, Including Assaf Hanukah who designed the cover of my new novel), educational and unique. I wasn't sure that it wasn't a bit to easy on its subjects, placing the soldier of an invading army in the victim position is a bit problematic and as Israelis we should do our best to avoid "shooting and crying"(DL did much to open my eyes to this question). nonetheless, in a war - everybody is a victim, including the soldiers of the invading army, and everybody's experience deserves being discussed. I recommend "West Beirut" as a good film discussing that war from a Lebanese perspective.יובל בן-עמי Yuval Ben-Amihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08990566978902353143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post-35584334190292429102008-08-17T00:16:00.000+03:002008-08-17T00:16:00.000+03:00did you see yet valtz im bashir? what did you thi...did you see yet valtz im bashir? what did you think?Alizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17391487486692786398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370424186605767972.post-49708259125592237182008-08-17T00:07:00.000+03:002008-08-17T00:07:00.000+03:00אני מחקה על היום קשהיה כתובות כאלה בעיטונים גדולים...אני מחקה על היום קשהיה כתובות כאלה בעיטונים גדולים פה באמריקה, וקש יקרו איתם.Théodore Berg Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954269426348635814noreply@blogger.com